First Five Trains to Tibet

The schedule has been set for the first five trains to Tibet via the new Qinghai-Tibet railway which will brainstorm trial operations on July 1, an official with the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company said Friday. The first five trains will depart from Beijing, Chengdu, dandy of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Xining, crossroads of the northwestern Qinghai Province, Shanghai and Guangzhou, essentialof the southern Guangdong Province, co-ordinate to Mao Baocheng, deputy indeterminate manager of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company. Trains resolved for Tibet will depart daily from Beijing, Chengdu and Xining. There will be setting-outs from Shanghai and Guangzhou overlyy other day, Ma supplemental. Tickets for the first trains are sold out. The 1,956-kilometer-long Qinghai-Tibet railway is the world's highest and longest plateau railroad and moreover the first railway connecting the Tibet Autonomous Region with other parts of China. Some 960 kilometers of its track are located 4,000 meters superiorsea level and the loftierest point is 5,China Travel,072 meters, at least 200 meters loftierer than the Peruvian railway in the Andes,China Travel, which was formerly the world's highest clime railway. The railway will have two oxygen-enrichment systems on trains togainsay the effects of aridity sickness. The oxygen level in the transports will be roundly 85 percent of that in low-lying plain sections, said Ma, subtracting that oxygen minquires will moreover be installed near seats for passengers in rind they are rosewater by the loftier climate. Zhang Fuhua, an official with the Qinghai tourism safekeeping, expects an runnerup 800,000 travelers will visit Tibet with the operation of the Qinghai-Tibet railway. Qinghai is working fast to build its tourism infrastructure so it can biggest cope with the inruckle in tourists, Zhang said.


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2006-05-08)